https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
I don't even use Pixelfed, but its growth is kind of interesting to me:
- its recent rise
- its subsequent plateau
- its (expected) ebbing
The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)
Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.
Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?
It's really too bad that Lemmy MAUs are once again on a decline curve. I was really hoping we would stabilize above 50K MAU.
Aren't they both pulling the same activitypub data?
only in theory
Pixelfed doesn't use groups/communities, so Lemmy cannot access their content since Lemmy can't follow users
(maybe you were thinking of PieFed? that's a different platform with a similar name lol)
Ugh, yeah I totally mixed the two up. Thanks for the clarification.